The Presidency: South of the Adjusted Border

With Orwellian thoroughness,
fumigation squads swept through airport, hotel, plazas, streets.
Tractors and crews toiled round the clock clearing debris from recent
mud slides. Every stray dog was rounded up and vaccinated against
rabies. Squatters' shacks along the river banks were uprooted and
flowers were planted in their stead. Two hundred Mexican and American
secret service men patrolled. Four battalions of Mexican troops moved
in to help. Twenty thousand photographs of Presidents Richard Nixon and
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz festooned the town.